Published: 4/28/17Publication: Forbes"After years of investigations, lawsuits, and fines, a checkered past of patent abuse and exploitation appears to have caught up with a major U.S. chip developer. Qualcomm Inc. now finds itself as a defendant in a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) antitrust suit, in which the plaintiff argues the [...]
Published: 4/24/17Publication: Lexology"On 8 February 2017, the Dutch district court in The Hague ruled for the first time in the Netherlands since the Huawei decision on standard-essential patents (SEPs) and Fair Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) issues. The case related to proceedings launched by Archos in response to infringement cases brought in the [...]
Published: 4/24/17Publication: Lexology"UK Court takes tough stance on party unwilling to take Worldwide licence on FRAND terms. The UK High Court has handed down its first decision determining FRAND royalties, and has provided clear guidance as to the rights and obligations of parties to licensing negotiations and litigation relating to [...]
Published: 4/24/17Publication: Bloomberg BNA"The Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit against Qualcomm Inc. alleging anticompetitive patent-licensing practices should continue, trade groups representing technology and automobile companies urged the Trump administration in a letter April 21. The letter asked President Donald Trump to ensure that the case is 'allowed to run its course without prejudice [...]
Washington, D.C. – Today, a broad group of companies and organizations representing the auto and technology industries sent a letter to the White House to raise awareness of the growing danger of standards essential patent (SEP) abuse and expressed support for government action against anti-competitive licensing practices involving SEPs. The [...]
Published: 4/21/17Publication: Reuters"A coalition of technology companies including Samsung Electronics Co and Intel Corp have urged President Donald Trump not to interfere with an Obama administration antitrust case against Qualcomm Inc over its patent licensing practices. A dozen companies and trade groups sent Trump a letter on Thursday encouraging him [...]
Published: 4/21/17Publication: Law360"Samsung, Intel and other companies urged President Donald Trump on Thursday to crack down on owners of standard-essential patents who don’t license them on fair terms, and to allow a Federal Trade Commission suit accusing Qualcomm of doing that to proceed in court.The letter to the president signed by 15 companies and organizations, including [...]
Published: 4/21/17Publication: IP-Watch"A group of 15 US and foreign tech and automobile companies and organisations has sent a letter to the White House asking for support to reduce what they see as rising anti-competitive licensing practices involving standards essential patents (SEPs). SEPs are patents included in technologies that have [...]
Published: 4/19/17Publication: IPKat"The AmeriKat loves prowling law firm press releases and journal articles right after a judgment is released. The rush to get to publication can often result in unequivocal statements about what the judgment means. As most lawyers know, it is a challenge to ever know what a judgment [...]
Published: 4/14/17Publication: IAM"Last week’s judgment from London’s High Court in Unwired Planet v Huawei has elicited a lot of interest from the patent licensing community in the US. Despite the fact that patent disputes between various players in the mobile sector have hardly been a rarity in recent years, there have been very few [...]